Can We Become ‘The United States of America’ Once Again?

Yes, but the Church must lead the way.

In this election season Americans are desperately looking for someone who will come in and tear up what needs to be torn up. That needs to happen. The Bible says, “Tear down and build up,” but when you tear down something bad, you’ve got to know what to replace it with. You’ve got to come in with wisdom; you can’t just come with a sledge-hammer. You must come with a plow, with seed, and receive water and light in order to see healthy growth. That’s what we’ve got to do.

We must begin at the root of things, with the soil, and see America together as a family — the “United States of America” once again. For the sake of our country’s future, leaders must lay aside their pride and self-serving agendas in order to come together with wisdom and common sense at the table of reason in dialogue with respect and humility to hammer out effective solutions to the difficult realities we face.

Here are eleven crucial challenges we face:

Americans are tragically divided in numerous ways.

As our nation has neglected God, government has grown.

Too many have trusted politicians’ promises instead of divine providence.

Too many have preferred the ever-drifting opinions of secularists to proven biblical principles.

There is an all-out assault on faith, absolutes and any mention of God in public.

Moral standards have been rejected, marriage has been redefined and anything goes in sexual practices.

Protection of the innocent and innocence has diminished in importance.

Excessive government spending is bankrupting the country and robbing future generations of the opportunity to succeed through honest labor.

Freedom and responsibility are being exchanged for dependence and entitlement.

An excessive, ineffective, all-powerful state is replacing a free, responsible citizenry.

Our national direction is being determined by special-interest groups who demand “rights” while denying the legitimate rights of others. As a result, opportunity, productivity and even the promise of meaningful employment are being destroyed.

Stop Clashing and Begin Sharpening

Recognizing these serious problems we face, Christians must stop screaming and slinging mud at each other and instead meet at the table of reason to pray and think through our differences constructively and in a spirit of good will. If two blades smash into each other straight on, the blades are notched and blunted. Only if they meet at an angle and under skilled control can the blades be sharpened.

We Christians need to stop butting heads over our political differences and instead meet in a way that is guided by the Spirit. Only then will iron truly sharpen iron and the world witness the unity Jesus prayed so earnestly for, the body of believers standing together as an unshakable, spiritually united body of true believers.

Get in the Game, Even If It’s Messy

We must also reject the thought that the spiritual is to be separated from the governmental. Transformed people transform the culture while standing up for what is right. Let it be said of believers today that we feared no man and no power, and we gave no ground to the enemy.

The choice is clear: we can live in freedom under God or in bondage under any other source …

Take a moment to consider the effect of Christian principles in the development of the United States of America. Christian ideas played a powerful role in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. All three highlight foundational ideas of how governments should function, and these foundations of our country did not come about as a result of the “do church, not politics” view.

Most of us are familiar with things like the Declaration’s appeal to the fact “that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” and to Ben Franklin calling for prayer at a crucial moment in the nation’s founding. But there are many other stories and facts, many less well known, that underscore the powerful role that religious faith played in the lives of many of our nation’s founders.

For instance, Charles Thomson was the permanent Secretary of the Continental Congress for more than fifteen years. He and John Hancock were the first to sign the handwritten draft of the Declaration of Independence. (Most of the signatories didn’t sign until August.) After retiring from public office in 1789, Thomson spent twenty years translating the Septuagint Bible from Greek into English.

A historian later wrote about the character of this highly influential and spiritual man: “It is scarcely necessary to make any further reference to Thomson’s religious belief. He had accepted the truths of Christianity in his early youth, and his whole life displayed a beautiful, upright character that was a constant inspiration to his friends. He not only became a Christian in the usual sense of the term; but he retired from public life, and for twenty-five years, was a solitary student of divine truth.”

Thomson is just one of many godly men who were instrumental in the founding of our nation. If our founders had adopted the “do church, not politics” view, we might not have a country today. But we do, because Christians realized that if they could influence laws and governments for good they would be obeying the command of their Lord, “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16).

The church must rise up, courageously and compassionately demonstrating the love of Christ.

The choice is clear: we can live in freedom under God or in bondage under any other source, which amounts to a modern-day Pharaoh. Paul told the New Testament church that the things that happened to Israel are an example for us (1 Corinthians 10:6). Surely you remember how God delivered the people from bondage in order to lead them into the land of blessing, freedom and fruitfulness. Our God is a God who blesses those living under his wing. Only unbelief and disobedience to His Word can hinder the blessings He freely offers through His Son. “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).

True believers understand that hearts and minds must be transformed by the power of God and by witnessing the visible manifestation of His life through the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Now is the time to rise and shine with the glory of the Lord upon us (Isaiah 60:1). Concerned Christians must pray for leaders to understand the reality of spiritual warfare and the importance of a Christian worldview. This does not mean we impose our faith on others, merely that we choose representatives that reflect our values. That is both the benefit and danger of democracy.

The church must rise up, courageously and compassionately demonstrating the love of Christ. This we know for sure: Christ left us here as His witnesses on this earth for His glory and kingdom purpose. The moment Christians decide to stand together and boldly as the family of God, truth will win!

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Wayne Cook

HEAR, HEAR!!

Gary

NO. America will never be united again. The differences between us are too great. And, this division will eventually lead to the end of the USA.

eddiestardust

There’s the door over there.. you know you can leave if you want to …no one will stop you! Some of us believe what we have had IS worth fighting for….that’s why I PRAY!

Gary

Why do you think it is that God lets things get worse and worse instead of answering your prayers?

O’Pinyon

I know someone who was praying for her alcoholic husband, he got arrested, and he turned his life around. Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.

Ken Abbott

God sent Jonah to preach against the Ninevites, threatening judgment. Then the people of Ninevah repented and God held off. He is a God of mercy as well as justice.

Cowboy

Are you praying for America, Gary? It takes all of us before God. He says “if His people” not if a single person.

Gary

I used to. Then I read the Bible and learned that as the time for the end of days draws near, things will get worse and worse. By the way, 2 Chronicles 7:14 is to the Jews regarding Israel, not to Americans regarding America.

John

Some people are actually going to have to leave The USA when the land gets healed.

John

Believers in Christ never give up: 2 Chronicles 7: 14 to 15 KJV. The promise is in vs. 15
Land is Getting Healed.

luke16

You all have missed the point, including James. It takes repentance to move God.

” Surely you remember how God delivered the people from bondage in order to lead them into the land of blessing, freedom and fruitfulness. Our God is a God who blesses those living under his wing. Only unbelief and disobedience to His Word can hinder the blessings He freely offers through His Son. “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).”

Other than Joshua and Caleb not one single person made it into the land of blessing, not even Moses.
A group of believers getting together and telling God what to do will produce about as much as a group of non believers getting together and telling God what to do. Go back and read the book of Jeremiah,You will find that God tells Jeremiah to stop praying for the people of Israel. They ignored God warnings and now judgement was coming. James needs to stop worrying about telling God what he wants and start telling the people God’s judgement is coming, Repent.

Charles Packwood

I love James. Would love to be more like him in many respects. God never gave those of faith in Israel the authority in unity to tear down and uproot in wisdom so as to bring about change. He called one man, Jeremiah, to uproot kingdoms and to plant with the Word of the Lord. Why does He do things the way He does things?

Mrs. Margaret Mary Welz

It takes faith to see GOD move, do what only GOD can do to meet the need. It is not our need that GOD is moved by. It’s faith that moves GOD. GOD is pleased with our faith in Him. Our obedience proves our love. Faith works. Faith works by love. and it’s not just any kind of love, we are talking about its The GOD kind of faith that will tear down and build THE KINGDOM where El Shaddai, The GOD of MORE THAN ENOUGH takes care of all His children with more to come.

ImAHeterotroph

Heterosexuals are privileged I know you know that and white people are too but you don’t want to acknowledge it. White people got mad that my people got the right to live as a human and not have to be treated as property. I was considered “property” back then and it took whites so long to get over the fact that I’m going to be equal to them. This is what heterosexuals are doing to me now with my orientation they want me to be “property” to them and only they can have a right to happiness and they try passing laws so I can go to prison just for having attractions to men. The heterosexuals are mad about us having the right to live together they don’t want us to be equal many of the say call it something else besides marriage I’m fine with that but I know they will deny us rights even if it was called something else. They don’t even want us to have civil unions they still will deny it if we called it that they still will deny the fact that we get served in restaurants

Royce E. Van Blaricome

Man, you are one messed up Dude! First off, we’re not in the 1800’s anymore. You need to come into the 21st Century and stop living in the past. You also need to get over your bigotry against Whites.

As for your additional rant about your Homosexuality you’re don’t know what you’re talking about there either. Nobody is trying to make you their “property”. My goodness man, get a grip on Reality!! What kind of total Loser thinks Life is all about being “Happy”.

No doubt Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Gary Ridgeway, and a host of others wish you had been in control of the Gov’t while they were around. Or don’t you know doing what they did made them “Happy!”

Thanks for showing Monica Mares and Caleb Peterson who have a natural urge and sexual attraction towards one another that they didn’t choose should be allowed to marry. Did God intend for them to act on it? THEY ARE MOTHER & SON!! But hey, if it makes them “Happy!”

Todd Nickerson has a natural urge and sexual attraction that he certainly didn’t ask for and definitely didn’t choose. Did God intend for him to act on it? He is a self-proclaimed pedophile that has urges towards children. But hey, if it makes them “Happy!”

Most states have the “Age of Consent” set at 16yo & some as young as 13. So a 50-some year old man “falls in love’ with a 16yo and they “consent” to be married. Thanks for telling us you think they SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MARRY because it makes them HAPPY!

Norman MacArthur and Bill Novak spent 15 years as father and son in the eyes of the law. The couple, together for more than 50 years married in Pennsylvania. Thanks for telling us all you think that’s just hunky dory too because it makes them HAPPY!

Many of those who populate our prisons are those who have a natural urge and impulse towards aggression that they didn’t choose. Did God intend for them to act on it? Or should we respect that feeling as their “truest truth?” Or is it appropriate to suggest that their urge, no matter how natural, must be morally tamed? Or should they just be allowed to do whatever makes them HAPPY?

“They don’t even want us to have civil unions they still will deny it if we called it that they still will deny the fact that we get served in restaurants.”

WRONG!! In WA State the People actually passed a Civil Union Law that gave Homosexuals EVERYTHING that any other actual Married couple could have but that wasn’t good enough. They had to go after the institution of Marriage.

Why? Because your guilty conscience will NEVER be assuage until you get full and total approval. And that is something you will NEVER get. Why? Because God said so.

So go on your pursuit of happiness with your perverted lusts and sexually immoral lifestyle. Live it up and yuck it up while you can. Eternity in the Lake of Fire awaits you.

Mrs. Margaret Mary Welz

MR. VAN BLARICOME. phew. Jesus came that we might have life and that more abundant. ABUNDANT WORDS IS NOT WHAT GOD HAD IN MIND but rejoicing and having a attitude of gratitude and thanks to GOD is rather what GOD had in mind. Quick to the chase, men prove they love GOD by their obedience to HIS WORD, the bible and by their willingness to obey, like in Malachi, to obey to give GOD the tithe and then be a giver to give offerrings as THE LORD through THE HOLY SPIRIT leads. Thank you Sir. Good day.

Royce E. Van Blaricome

What was that? You rebuke me for the length of my comment? Of what benefit/value was that to God or The Body?

I have no problem with being rebuked, reproved, and corrected when I have said something that is false about God or His Word. But this? And from an “Author”? Please cite the Book, Chapter, and Verse where anything I said above is untrue or where I disobeyed God’s Word in what I wrote. I figure that is the least you can do when you’re gonna SCREAM at me about the number of words I used to bring Truth to a disobedient, rebellious, sexually-immoral God-hater.

Perhaps you’ve never heard of a man by the name of Paul of Tarsus. You choose to speak for God and tell me what He had in mind for me when I wrote what I did. Paul had a little bit to say in his “letters” and his “letters” make my comment look like an essay compared to a novel. And the Book I read them from tells me that each and every word was God-breathed and meant to be there. Now I am NOT saying my words were God-breathed but did you ever stop to consider that what I wrote was led by the Holy Spirit and meant to be said? I can well imagine what Paul would have said to a woman like you in the Corinthian Church when he wrote on the tough issues that had to be dealt with there. No wonder he wrote 1st Tim. 2:11-12!!

And you think that was Holy Spirit led?? Really?? I took the time to lay out the Truth to IAH and you come along and attempt to steal those seeds of Truth by diverting from the Truth with a focus on the length of what I wrote and the amount of words I used!! I’m sure the Holy Spirit appreciates that. I’m quite sure that diverting the focus from the sin of a disobedient, rebellious, sexually-immoral God-hater onto the number of words and length of message from an Ambassador of Christ was exactly what the Holy Spirit had in mind. NOT!! More like it is from the Deceiver and the Accuser of the Brethren. Holy Spirit led? I don’t think so.

So, just to be clear, in the future exactly how many words am I allowed to use without receiving a rebuke from you? And again, please cite the Book, Chapter, and Verse. God knows it is my desire to be obedient and I certainly don’t want you to get all bent outta shape over the length of my comment and have you lose your gentle and quiet spirit!!

Just outta pure curiosity, does your pastor have to run his sermon notes by you before he brings them on Sunday to ensure that they are of the proper length and not too verbose? I imagine they make for a real short message. But hey, no doubt that allows you more time for the edifying of the Body.

Mrs. Margaret Mary Welz

excuse me Sir. your words have bite. you are being stinging. I hurt. I can feel your words and I am sorry but also I have no time to be a blessing to you for your words actually hurt my spirit. GOD bless you. Please excuse me Sir. Bless THE LORD.

Royce E. Van Blaricome

Are you kidding me? You come in screaming at me because of a bunch of irrelevant nonsense over how many words I used and now have the gall to come back and whine about my words having a bite to them? They were meant to have a bite to them in the hopes that they’d wake you up. Which I see failed.

Please, do NOT be sorry about having no time to be a blessing to me. I don’t need the kind of blessings you bring lady.

Ok why are you comparing me dating a guy to a mother and son? Of course a mother and son dating is wrong who dates there mother? Also it’s funny how heterosexuals go and compare my relationship to everything bad but won’t dare compare HETEROSEXUALITY to this also WAY TOO MANY HETEROSEXUALS say my sexuality so much but don’t say the word heterosexual it angers me why can’t people say the word heterosexual? I bet Jesus would say the word heterosexual. Also you can’t view me or compare me to a serial killer I’m a whole different person from them. Also should I compare you to every single heterosexual serial killer out there??? Or should I compare you to every heterosexual person on earth? Also I would be happy with civil unions you don’t know me the entire LGBT community doesn’t speak for you you act like they do. Also all these things you listed I don’t even know what they are nor do I support them I only support a monogamous relationship between two men or two men or heterosexuals that’s all I support nothing else all the other stuff by the way nobody would support like I was in a LGBT club at school and everybody hates pedophiles we wish they were dead but you closed minded people act like we support pedophiles because we are different orientation from the majority of society is not true we HATE PEDOPHILES with a burning passion also a lot HETEROSEXUALS are pedophiles. What’s “any other married couple”? You mean HETEROSEXUAL? lol that’s what you meant you meant heterosexual as in straight lol people are so sick I swear so many people can’t even say the word heterosexual it’s so sick that’s a mental illness it’s not normal they go out of there way to say opposite gender couples instead of heterosexual couples 😛 I’m a believer in Christ I won’t go to hell you might for judging me so harshly.

Royce E. Van Blaricome

Well, that was almost a month ago so I had to go look but if you actually read the comment you’ll see I listed a plethora of SEXUALLY IMMORAL BEHAVIORS! The shoe fits and you are the one CHOOSING to wear it.

Who are YOU to say a mother and son or father and daughter having sex is wrong? On what Authority to you make that claim?

Of course Heterosexuals aren’t going to compare Heterosexuality to Homosexuality. That’s like comparing Day with Night. Darkness to Light. There is no comparison. Now that’s not to say that Heterosexuals can’t sin. They obviously can. Fornicators and Adulterers are listed in Leviticus, 1st Corinthians, Galatians, and Revelation right along with Homosexuals and other abominables.

“I only support a monogamous relationship between two men or two men or heterosexuals”

Based on what? You’re own made up set of rules? You go right ahead and be your own god while you can. There’s coming a day when you WILL breathe out your last breath and then you WILL stand before Christ as your Judge and then you WILL live with the consequences of your sin for ALL Eternity.

And I guarantee you the little bit of pleasure you took from your lusts now won’t even be remembered in the torment of the Lake of Fire. And it most certainly will NOT have been worth it.

You better read Matt. 7:21-23 because you are NOT a Christian and you’re standing in line waiting to hear Jesus speak. Then read Rev. 21:8 as those are also the words of Jesus and He will tell you there where you’re headed.

Then, if you’re so inclined, you can read John 7:24. Because I haven’t judged you “harshly”. I’ve judged you righteously and in love.

ImAHeterotroph

HETEROSEXUALITY CAN BE compared to my orientation because they are alike there’s no difference. Also INCEST and PEDOPHILIA and HETEROSEXUAL SIN are wrong. I’m a Christian so.

Royce E. Van Blaricome

Try an Etymology Class. Maybe that’ll help you. And no, you’re not a Christian. Not even close.

ImAHeterotroph

Who gets to define Christianity? Also there are two different types of “Christians” real Christians believe the word of god. Fake Christians are doing it for the money and fake Christians only bash things that aren’t like them such as non heterosexuals Muslims Jews Buddhist Non believers etc people even used Christianity to claim men are “superior” to women and also used it to have slaves and to say the White Caucasian race is “superior” to other races. That is fake Christianity to use it to benefit you and a lot of caucasian heterosexual men use Christianity as there benefit for thousands of years. Also the religion was misused by Caucasian heterosexual men they make it fit what they want it to be and a lot of it isn’t about following Christ I follow Christ majority of people claiming to be “Christians” only use the Bible to bash non heterosexuals and Muslims and etc. I haven’t seen Christians bash Heterosexuals and Bisexuals and I haven’t seen them bash other Christians

Royce E. Van Blaricome

Christ and His Ambassadors. That leaves you out and the very fact that you have to ask proves the point. You are NOT a Christian.

“fake Christians only bash things that aren’t like them such as non heterosexuals Muslims Jews Buddhist Non believers etc ”

What a moron. I love it when you clueless idiots – you’re not even a good Poser – persist in showing your complete ignorance. Of course you would describe the real Christians as “fake”. LOL

“But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (Rev. 21:8)

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted “(Ecc 3:1-2)

To every season burn burn burn there is a reason burn burn burn…

Mrs. Margaret Mary Welz

Dear Royce E. Van Blaricome, PRAISE THE LORD. JESUS IS ALIVE. REJOICE ALWAYS. JESUS LOVES YOU. So I do too. No dear, heterosexuals are not privileged and i am THEE PROPERTY OF ALMIGHTY GOD. Dear. There are only two kinds of people. Count ’em. Two. Givers or takers. Lovers or losers. Goats or sheep. THE LORD is coming back for His sheep Darling. No Dear. Real Christians, here me real Christians are color blind when it comes to the human race but we tend to grow up and feel comfortable with the race we grew up with, so much it is VERY common, you will hear, that, girls marry men like their Daddy and men marry girls like their Mother. Ever hear anyone tell you that because i believe some STUDY found that out for sure. JESUS LOVES YOU. Why don’t you give up your rights and LET GO AND LET GOD deal with your defense. He loves you with an Everlasting Love. All you have to do is LOOK at The Cross and we know that John 3:16 That GOD so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that WHO-SO-EVER believes (that’s you, a who-so-ever, Right? Right, you are a whosoever, you qualify to get saved by Jesus Christ today, hold onto your eyesockets) that whosoever believes in Him, SHOULD not perish but HAS everlasting life, life eternal, You are a spirit. You live in a body. You have a soul which is the mind, will and emotions and the bible says Christians, Christ followers are suppose to POSSESS your own soul IN PATIENCE (a proverb). Jesus said to someone who asked about a widow who married her deceased husband’s brother when he asked Jesus, “Who’s husband in heaven will this woman belong to?” Jesus said paraphrased, look it up, You do error not knowing the Scriptures, that in heaven you would be like the angels and there are no woman’s hand being giving in marriage in heaven. (paraphrased) SO TOO, IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO SEX FOR THERE WILL BE NO NEED. NOW, When they asked Jesus about divorces, JESUS SAID, paraphrased, Moses allowed, because of men’s HARDNESS OF HEART, Moses allowed you to put away your wives but IN THE BEGINNING it was not so. For IN THE BEGINNING, GOD made His first Son, out of the dust of the earth and breathed a soul into Him, called Him Adam and one day said it was not good for man to be alone and put Adam to sleep and took A RIB out of Adam’s side and formed, THE BIBLE SAYS, the perfect helper, who perfectly meets the need of man. A HELPER. Eve. Adam’s wife and life partner. Are you telling me Mr. Van Blaricome that you know better than the Author of Life? No Dear. Sorry. Hold on and don’t be shocked. You were duped Sir. Homosexuality is a learned behavior not a unique physical attribute. My Mom use to say, because kids stick strange things in their mouth all the time, STOP IT. And for this, Mr. Van Blaricome, is my loving word, “Just stop it.” Submit yourself to your own physician and Make Jesus LORD of your life. Jesus loves you. Come out from other homosexuals and Jesus will receive you to Himself. Jesus said, “You must be Born Again” to a highly respected Rabbi Nickodemus and it’s still the same, and i say that to you. What is Born Again? It’s first, YOU take self or The Sin Nature everyone is born with, Adam’s fallen nature, off the throne of your heart, NOW YOU invite Jesus into your heart and life. NOW YOU crown Jesus LORD of your life and NOW we pray THE FATHER GOD, through the Son, Jesus and through our repentance and through Jesus’s atoning work at The Cross of Calvary and ASK for the gift of The Person of The Holy Spirit and we keep on asking because Christians, Christ followers are a lot like tires. Something bad happens and a little air lets out. More bad happens and a little more air lets out. A truckload of bad happens and you could wind up with a flat tire. Some Christians need a complete oil change. Why some Christians don’t act like Christians i will never know but my advice is YOU at like a Christian the best you know how. People are fragile. So you see Dear. Learn to pray. It’s just talking with GOD. You will find He has been there all along and make better choices Sir. There is no lone ranger Christians, get you to a bible believing church or fellowship and perhaps if you first go to your own Physician and ask for an examination that you don’t carry any sexually transittable diseases first, you can be RADICALLY SAVED AND CHANGED RIGHT NOW. say this prayer. SORRY GOD, FORGIVE ME JESUS. and get over it. welcome to The Kingdom of GOD. Go do that now son. Good day. My Mom said, “Just stop.” GOD bless you. Good day.

Mrs. Margaret Mary Welz

All things are possible with GOD. I can only speak for myself to pledge to do all I can as my part. Have faith in GOD.

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